If I read a good article, I ask GTP for a list of the people, titles, and organizations mentioned, so I can look them up.
“Can you read this article and extract the names and titles of people mentioned? https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2023/more-than-half-of-us-counties-have-no-access-or-very-limited-access-to-local-news.html”
Here are the names and titles of people mentioned in the article:
Penny Abernathy – Medill visiting professor and co-author of the report, expert on local news deserts.
Sarah Stonbely – Director of the State of Local News Project and co-author of the report.
Tim Franklin – Director of the Medill Local News Initiative and John M. Mutz Chair in Local News, senior associate dean at Medill.
Ginny Badanes – Senior director of Microsoft’s Democracy Forward program.
The organizations mentioned in the article are:
Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University
Microsoft’s Democracy Forward program
Medill Local News Initiative
State of Local News Project
It’s nice to have a virtual intern. I have about a dozen GPTs saved to help with routine tasks that might otherwise feel like too much effort.
In this case, the news deserts don’t include local broadcasters. I want to follow up with the authors to discuss why digital news websites like WBOC and CoastTV are missing, and how we might round out their interactive maps.
It’s wild to me that in 2024, the convergence of print, video, and audio is still defined by a parent company’s legacy rather than the medium of consumption. Broadcasters and newspapers pretending they don’t compete with eyeballs is nothing new. Industry trade groups don’t help resolve it. I attended the NAB Pilot program a few years ago. I was shocked when the NAB told me that newspapers were not competitors to broadcasters. “You do know that the B stands for broadcast?” So not Boomer?
That was the year when USA Today and the Wall Street Journal published incredible video scoops of Diana Nyad’s historic swim from Cuba to Florida. Newspapers were ahead of broadcasters with video of that story online.
That year was also the Boston Marathon Bombing, when digital platforms like Twitter were an entire hour or more ahead of the networks, because people on the ground and in houses were live-tweeting pictures from their yards as the SWAT teams moved through neighborhoods.
Here we are in 2024, still working to get consensus… and AI might soon make the conversation moot
“The ‘content’ of any medium is always another medium. The content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and print is the content of the telegraph.” – Marshall McLuhan 1964
Each new medium both contains and can emulate the one medium it replaces. The internet contains and emulates film, radio, television, publishing, and retail. The content of AI will include… the Internet.
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